| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The place of sport in national life -- 2. Representations of sport: the mass media -- 3. Representations of sport: celebrity, stars and heroes -- 4. Traditions and innovations -- 5. Gaining meaning from sport: sport and pleasure -- 6. Gaining meaning from sport: sportsmanship and decorum -- 7. Gaining meaning from sport: Englishness and isolationism -- 8. Class, conflict and cohesion. |
| Summary |
Covering the years between the two World Wars, this title focuses on the central place of sport in English life. It aims to provide insight into issues of gender, class, religion and locality, ideas of morality, and what it meant to be English during this time. It is an analysis of sport as an expression of the values and relations of a nation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Sports -- Social aspects. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Jack, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huggins, Mike. Sport and the English, 1918-1939. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415331846 0415331854 (DLC) 2005017639 (OCoLC)60742039 |
| ISBN |
0203398025 (electronic book) |
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9780203398029 (electronic book) |
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0415331846 (hardback) |
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0415331854 (paperback) |
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9780415331845 (hardback) |
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9780415331852 (paperback) |
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